Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] the third " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Griffin , from the Mount Tallant club , still had problems with his vision in the contest though he led 8–6 going into the third round which saw Gornei put up a storming last stand to bring the fighters level . |
| 2 | Incidentally I got that information on the third law from a very reliable source . |
| 3 | In fact , much points towards the conclusion that , despite its centrality to Hitler 's own thinking , anti-Semitism was for the most part of no more than secondary importance as a factor shaping popular opinion in the Third Reich . |
| 4 | In the 600cc class which should be the best of the day , Jim Moodie is fastest on 115.90 but if McCallen gets it together he can win this race for the third year in a row . |
| 5 | This convention , re-negotiated in 1980 and 1985 , provided greater aid to the Third World states , but its value to them was limited by the effects of inflation and the restrictions on agricultural trade with Europe caused by CAP . |
| 6 | These issues are important for the future of Ghana and other African agricultural exporters , and are of theoretical interest to historians and social scientists concerned with the problematic ability of indigenous capitalism to lead economic development in the Third World . |
| 7 | This capital is running out , and if we export industrial agriculture to the Third World it will run out faster . |
| 8 | It appears to me that the arguments which I have heard involve the consideration of three separate questions , namely : ( 1 ) does the ex turpi causa maxim and its related rules ( which I will refer to as ‘ the ex turpi causa defence ’ ) afford a defence to a claim for contribution under the Act of 1978 ? ( 2 ) If the ex turpi causa defence is capable of so applying , can it be said , with the degree of certainty necessary for a striking out order to be made , that the defence will exclude any contribution from the third party in the circumstances of this case ? ( 3 ) Leaving aside the ex turpi causa defence , can it be said with the necessary degree of certainty that the court will , under section 2(1) and ( 2 ) of the Act of 1978 , exempt the third party from liability to make contribution even if he has been negligent in the performance of some duty of care owed to the plaintiffs ? |
| 9 | FoE calls for large-scale debt cancellation to help achieve sustainable development in the Third World and draws attention to the role of UK commercial banks in the debt crisis . |
| 10 | Dependent development theorists , on the other hand , acknowledged capitalist development in the Third World , particularly in the NICs , but it was development of a peculiar kind , namely dependent development . |
| 11 | This was meant to prepare people to do useful work in the Third World . |
| 12 | ‘ Cities of the Immortals ’ will be set up by California-based company called the Heaven on Earth Corporation , many of them providing low-cost housing for the Third World . |
| 13 | Lansdowne enjoyed territorial advantage in the third quarter without threatening the home line but Ballymena gradually regained the ascendancy with McAleese the speedy Bell and Nicky Rainey spearheading a number of promising attacks . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , there is not enough evidence to make a coherent account of how Carthaginians and Greeks saw each other in the third and second centuries B.C. and how Rome came to profit from the situation — not least by the importation of an African slave who became the most accomplished of the Hellenized dramatists of Latin literature , Terence . |
| 15 | Western economic pressure may be creating mental ill-health in the Third World ; and Western ‘ hi-tech ’ psychiatric methods are so inappropriate in this context that they may be doing little to mend the damage . |
| 16 | A proven judge of footballing talent , Chapman took great interest in the third team . |
| 17 | Manufacturing industry was still in recession right up to the end of 1992 , and both manufacturing and total industrial output fell last year for the third year in a row , according to the Central Statistical Office 's figures yesterday . |
| 18 | He saved that humiliation for the third round , when he knocked Tommy out with an uppercut that the lad from Poplar never saw . |
| 19 | For the first time staff concerned with mapping and interpreting crustal structure in the third dimension have come together in a single division , Thematic Maps and Onshore Surveys ( TMOS ) . |
| 20 | We light this candle on the third Sunday of Advent . |
| 21 | Prince Charles was also critical of northern nations for failing to address adequately issues such as global warming , ozone depletion and marine pollution , and to " remove the barriers in the world economic and trading system that make sustainable development in the third world more difficult " . |
| 22 | Grunte , who had little time for the Third World , said that as far as he was concerned , most of it seemed to have moved to Birmingham . |
| 23 | Reinvigorated by Birmingham 's welcome and the feel of home turf , the boys made excellent time on the third stage between Birmingham and Cresswell . |
| 24 | He gained public sympathy after the third Marquess of Salisbury , the prime minister , doubted that ‘ a British constituency would elect a black man ’ . |
| 25 | In the result , although I have considerable sympathy with the third party in the position in which he finds himself and I think it may well be the case that the third defendant will fail to obtain contribution from him , I do not consider that this will inevitably be so . |
| 26 | These applications and others like them for the microprocessors have growing importance in the Third World . |
| 27 | Smith , born Down Under but with Irish grandparents , leads Oxford against a World XV in a match to raise funds for GOAL , an Irish-based international charity which provides financial assistance to the Third World . |